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He calls pre-revolutionary France a "corpus mysticum," or a "mystical body," that was subject only to the will of the monarchy, aristocracy, and clergy. [44] During the Revolution, he continues, power shifted to the parlementaires , who began to operate behind a political "fourth wall", still removed from the actual interests of citizens. [ 45 ]
French theatre in the 16th-century followed the same patterns of evolution as the other literary genres of the period. For the first decades of the century, public theatre remained largely tied to its long medieval heritage of mystery plays, morality plays, farces, and soties, although the miracle play was no longer in vogue.
Pages in category "18th-century French dramatists and playwrights" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 314 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The theater of the 18th century also introduced two new genres, now considered minor, which both strongly influenced the French theater in the following century; the "Comedy of Tears" (comédie larmoyante) and the bourgeois drama (drame bourgeois) which told stories full of pathos in a realistic setting, and which concerned the lives of ...
List of French playwrights. 2 languages. ... 18th century. Pierre Beaumarchais (1732–1799) Louis-François Faur (1746–1829) Olympe de Gouges (1748–1793)
French historical drama films (1 C, 267 P) F. French historical fantasy films (7 P) M. French historical musical films (21 P) R. French historical romance films (32 P) T.
The French nobility (French: la noblesse française) was an aristocratic social class in France from the Middle Ages until its abolition on 23 June 1790 during the French Revolution. From 1808 [ 1 ] to 1815 during the First Empire the Emperor Napoléon bestowed titles [ 2 ] that were recognized as a new nobility by the Charter of 4 June 1814 ...
By the mid-18th century the French Enlightenment had found a focus in the project of the Encyclopédie. [26] The philosophical movement was led by Voltaire and Rousseau, who argued for a society based upon reason rather than faith and Catholic doctrine, for a new civil order based on natural law, and for science based on experiments and ...